Category: General

  • Totenamt

    I τ daget in dat osten,de maen schînt averall;wo weinich wêt mîn lêveken,wor ick benachten schal. The day is breaking in the east,the moon shines everywhere;little does my sweetheart know where I shall pass the night. Anonymous

  • Mailied

    Wie herrlich leuchtetMir die Natur!Wie glänzt die Sonne!Wie lacht die Flur! Es dringen BlütenAus jedem ZweigUnd tausend StimmenAus dem Gesträuch Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Empty vessel

    I am just an empty vessel saling the great sea. Forms arise and disappear. Change is just a principle no words describes the mysterious one. How can I forget that this moment and all existence is perfect and without flaws. Thomas 19/7 2009

  • The wonderful world of Pi

    I have a fascination with π. There is something wonderful, wondrous and unfathomable about Pi. The mystery of an unending serious of numbers with no predictable order. It’s like the mystery of the Universe. It’s like a tickle of your soul. π  is commonly defined as the ratio of a circle‘s circumference C to its diameter d. So simple, yet so complex. Memorisation of…

  • This ruined house

    Although the windblows terribly here,the moonlight also leaksbetween the roof planksof this ruined house. Izumi Shikibu (Japan, 974-1034) Ref.: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68606/spiritual-poetry

  • I had fallen in love with Alice

    I had fallen in love with Alice (from David Small’s Stitches) from Stitches: A Memoir… on Vimeo. Reference: David Small en barndom i gråtoner tegneseriesiden.dk

  • 16th International Push Hands Meeting in Hannover

    International Push Hands Meeting push-hands.de This was my first time at the yearly International Push Hands Meeting for Taiji Quan practitioners in Hannover, Germany, running from Wednesday the 6th. through Sunday the 10th. of April 2016. Workshops in the mornings and free push hands in the afternoon. There was a wonderful vibe all week – and it only…

  • The Wolf Grischuk leading the pack in Petrosian Memorial 2014

    In this amazing fighting chess game in the third round of Petrosian Memorial GM Grischuk demolishes GM Morozevich. Alexander Grischuk, who is famed for his attacking chess, found a sharp variant of the Slav QGD for the game vs Morezevich. Both parties are walking on thin ice right out of the opening. Morezevich should have…

  • Sam Tam is coming to Copenhagen

    Seminar with Grand Master Sam Tam in Copenhagen from the 16th. to the 18th. of May 2014 Torben Bremann and Ole Eskildsen visits Sam Tam in his home in Canada in 2006. There is a wonderful and rare oppurtunity to meet a real Tai Chi (taiji) and Ichuan (Dachengquan or Yiquan) master that makes the…

  • Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu

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  • Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is a Chinese natural herb medicine ( TCM ) against lung disorders including, cough, hoarseness, loss of voice, dry skin, sore throat and colds. Reference: Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa wikipedia.org

  • So Many Responsibilities

    How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an “active laziness”? Naturally there are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The Eastern style consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea and gossiping…

  • We should not despair

    Dear friend, Thank you for sending me this heart felt email. You convey your emotions so beautiful and strong. I think and feel like this. I try to welcome and accept al my emotions – maybe you could do this too? I know its hard. I for sure do not want to be taking capture…

  • Mindfulness Meditation

    Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

  • Ole n Thomas sings the opera Roppokai

    I almost forgot about this wonderful image from my black belt graduation in Daitoryu Aikijujutsu this spring. Sensei Seigo Okamoto from Tokyo, Japan visits us twice a year in Roppokai Copenhagen – Sensei has done that in a period of over 20 years. Ole and I have spent many wonderful hours in and out of…